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“He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15Rated 2023-03-21T06:37:09-0700
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of MythmakingI’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine doesn’t run that way. If… 2024-12-17T09:53:35-0800 charity.wtf 9,000 words Rated 2025-01-29T12:39:41-0800
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‘We’ve Been Shaken Out of This Fantasy’: How the Left Sees the War in IsraelA former top aide for Bernie Sanders on how Israel's critics on the political left see the Hamas attack and what this means for deal-making in the region. Politico 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-09T12:16:09-0700
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‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. CrusadeThe backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign. #College #Texas 2024-01-20T13:35:53-0800 The New York Times Nicholas Confessore ($) 7,000 words Rated 2024-01-22T18:03:33-0800
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Your Review: Alpha School... 2025-06-27T04:49:52-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:55:47-0700
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minimum effective doseI am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I don't want to distract my immune system from my tooth's healing. So when I went to the gym today for the first time... 2025-02-01T03:50:23-0800 Winnie Lim 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-05T23:19:29-0800
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Laundry Pods Are Bad. Laundry Sheets Aren’t Any Better.Laundry and dishwasher pods are encased in toxic plastic. Save money and go easier on the planet with these sustainable laundry tips. #Sustainability 2023-06-14T04:42:18-0700 Outside Online Kristin Hostetter 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-14T05:56:23-0700
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Why we’re helping more wikis move away from FandomHi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!) really dig. I also love that it got started because one of the Riot guys plays a ton of Old School RuneScape and thinks our wiki is awesome. How cool is that?? I want this to kick off a new era where communities and developers take... 2024-10-09T17:00:00-0700 Jonathan Lee 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-11T11:05:50-0700
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Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025I still use Sublime Text in 2025 even after trying a lot of other editors OhDoyleRules james2doyle@gmail.com James Doyle 4,000 words Rated 2025-01-29T18:13:52-0800
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Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas 2024-12-11T03:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T07:37:30-0800
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Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go ViralA new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology 2025-05-28T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words Rated 2025-05-29T08:05:51-0700
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Why GitHub Actually WonRated 2024-09-11T15:21:57-0700
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Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful PeopleIntelligent individuals are better at understanding the reputational consequences of their beliefs 2023-11-19T03:00:57-0800 Rob Henderson's Newsletter Rob Henderson 3,000 words Rated 2023-12-17T23:15:24-0800
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Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture?Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting. #Agriculture #Barack Obama #Fast Food #Food & drink 2016-10-05T01:55:45-0700 The New York Times Michael Pollan ($) 6,000 words Rated 2023-05-15T22:27:38-0700
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Why Britain doesn’t buildThe history of attempts to reform planning in Britain is proof that political willpower is not enough: you need to be smart, not just brave. 2023-05-23T05:36:06-0700 Works in Progress 8,000 words Rated 2023-06-27T20:58:00-0700
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Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred in other comparably wealthy countries. #Cars #Poverty 2023-12-11T00:00:01-0800 The New York Times Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, Josh Katz ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-12-12T08:09:34-0800
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Where Harris’ campaign went wrongIt was supposed to be everything short of a free ad – a panel of women not containing their excitement to welcome Kamala Harris, ready to introduce her to their committed daytime audience of exactly the type of women the vice president’s campaign always hoped were going to be critical to her base. 2024-11-06T03:10:46-0800 lite.cnn.com Edward-Isaac Dovere ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-06T15:03:51-0800
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When Private Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own CompaniesPrivate equity firms can succeed when their companies, customers, and employees fail. It’s a broken system. 2023-05-01T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Brendan Ballou ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-02T23:35:44-0700
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What’s on the Menu When Your Cat Goes Out? Probably More Than You Think.Free-ranging cats hunt or scavenge more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, according to a new study. #Birds #Endangered Species 2023-12-12T08:03:28-0800 The New York Times Catrin Einhorn ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-12-12T20:52:14-0800
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What to DoRated 2025-03-30T13:33:27-0700
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What the Amish Can Teach America About Economic Mobility - WSJRated 2024-10-21T15:22:06-0700
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What I Learned Reading 1,000 Investor Reports · Collab FundRated 2023-03-05T17:59:18-0800
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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, and issues including Brexit, the N.H.S., inflation, housing, and the economy. 2024-03-25T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Sam Knight 8,000 words Rated 2024-04-06T07:06:14-0700
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What Happens When Private Equity Takes Over a HospitalNew analysis shows alarming increase in patient complications 2023-12-26T00:00:00-0800 hms.harvard.edu 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-31T15:57:50-0700
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What Happened to San Francisco, Really?Nathan Heller on the fate of America’s most enterprising downtown and the debates over housing, homelessness, and public safety that have engulfed the city since the pandemic. 2023-10-16T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Nathan Heller 8,000 words Rated 2023-10-18T22:05:43-0700
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Venezuela’s Maduro clings to power. Opposition hopes this time it ends differently.Venezuelan President Maduro has claimed – without evidence – that he won the presidential election. Despite high levels of repression, the opposition is leaning into their hope for change. 2024-08-05T13:26:53-0700 The Christian Science Monitor Mie Hoejris Dahl ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-08-05T15:20:22-0700
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Vaclav Smil and the Value of DoubtDavid Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science 2024-02-20T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T22:44:49-0700
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Using axis lines for good or eviladd them only if they mean something 2024-02-29T09:00:41-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 1,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T23:20:50-0700
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Undoing bikeshare’s original sinBikeshare has been a godsend. Why not subsidize it? 2023-04-18T00:00:00-0700 Fast Company Aimee Rawlins 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-30T19:54:00-0700
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Twitter, Elon and the Indigo BlobThe line between expertise and politics has become increasingly blurry. The demise of "Old Twitter" could help to reverse that. 2023-07-31T07:51:48-0700 Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-20T14:58:06-0700
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Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health RisksRated 2025-07-01T20:56:50-0700
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Tools: Code Is All You NeedThe solution to agentic flows was code all along. 2025-07-03T00:00:00-0700 Armin Ronacher 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-03T16:56:26-0700
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TinyLetter had a big momentOn February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s. 2024-02-29T06:00:00-0800 The Verge Kevin Nguyen 3,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T22:27:14-0700
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Thoughts on seed oilDon't get distracted. 2024-04-18T09:01:11-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 5,000 words Rated 2024-04-18T14:45:50-0700
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This is a teenagerRated 2024-04-16T21:01:53-0700
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The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your LandAmid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency. #Detroit #Housing #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-11-12T00:00:52-0800 The New York Times Conor Dougherty ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-14T07:52:48-0800
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The Who Cares Eradansinker.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-28T06:40:22-0700
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The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”Rated 2023-05-11T22:16:37-0700
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The Trials and Tribulations of the BoymomRated 2024-05-29T16:53:54-0700
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The torture of an unphilosophical life2024-12-25T16:03:27-0800 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T08:14:51-0800
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The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s College SororityHow are members of A.K.A.—which Harris joined at Howard University—responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign against Donald Trump? Jazmine Hughes reports. 2024-10-21T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jazmine Hughes 6,000 words Rated 2024-11-03T19:57:14-0800
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The Talk: Accused of PlagiarismIn an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “The Talk,” Darrin Bell illustrates a conversation with a professor at U.C. Berkeley who accused him, without evidence, of plagiarism. #College 2023-06-03T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Darrin Bell 200 words Rated 2023-06-04T07:23:39-0700
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The Solar Cell Discovery MachineRobotic analysis of perovskites may speed development of solar cells with better than 30% efficiency 2023-08-01T09:30:04-0700 IEEE Spectrum Charles Q. Choi 1,000 words Rated 2023-08-02T09:58:33-0700
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The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech EliteI often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have read, is a matter of high prestige. Not so in Washington DC. In Washington people never read books—they just write them. To… 2024-08-21T13:51:14-0700 The Scholar's Stage 4,000 words Rated 2024-08-26T21:43:54-0700
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The Internet Is Just Investment Banking NowThe internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit. 2022-02-04T08:19:58-0800 The Atlantic Ian Bogost ($) 6,000 words Rated 2023-04-30T07:21:13-0700
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The reality of the Danish fairytaleDenmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the United States into. And for many good reasons. Education is state-funded, and students are even paid a stipend to go to university. Health care is equally free of individual charge, and there’s generally a robust social safety net for u... world.hey.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-06T23:17:15-0800
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The Quiet Death of Ello's Big DreamsEllo launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened? 2024-01-18T08:23:10-0800 Waxy.org Andy Baio 6,000 words Rated 2024-01-18T17:29:42-0800
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The Philosophical And Moral Incoherence of “How Dare You Walk Out Of My Speech”“Cancel Culture” Has Victims, But You’re Probably Not One Of Them 2022-08-14T12:47:01-0700 The Popehat Report Ken White 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-20T20:40:47-0800
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The open source gift exchangeI love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this is what's made my participation in the gift exchange of o... world.hey.com 500 words Rated 2024-10-10T15:07:24-0700
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The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much WorseA bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to... 2025-06-23T12:39:42-0700 Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-24T17:56:28-0700
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